The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Taylor Bolton, colored citizen of Cam
den, has raised and marketed over 1000
watermelons this season.
The Kingstree Record says there is not a
case of typhoid fever in the town, and that
there hos only been one case this year.
Thomas Davis, an elderly white man, was
killed at j. ID. Leonard's saw mill in Austin
township Thursday. A scantling was caught
In the wheel and in its revolution struck
Davis on the head and killed him.
At Newberry warrants have been issued
for the arrest of two young white men for
disturbing a religious congregation last
Sunday at Union Church. They were pro-
fahely boisterous and had pulled off, or were
preparing to pull off their coats, in order to
have tisticuff in the churchyard.
Last month William Thomas was brought
before Trial Justice Sitton at Due West
charged with stealing watermelons He
plead guilty and consented to take a
whipping instead of the punishment pre-
scribed by law. 1t is said that Trial Justice
Sitton consented to this, saying that the
whippers must not cut the blood out.
Five persons escaped from the Chesterfield
Jail last week-three white and two colored.
On Monday evening Messrs Rul1er and
Sweat went back and delivered themselves
up to the Sheriff, saying that they were
afraid they would be captured and the
for them. They brought the Sheriff a
basket of grapes.
AT Newberry thieves entered George w.
Parsons residence one night last week and
made quite raid They got into the dining
room by raising sash from the outside
They took nearly all of Mrs. Parsons iellies
and preserves that she had put up for winter
use nearly all the dishes, the silver spoons
and the silver-plated knives and forks
an in Inc 70 oh,
At Sumter Or r. d. Reed, who was
placed in Jail a few days ago to await trial
on the charge of assault and battery of a
high and aggravated nature, created some
thing of sensation at the Jail on Saturday
by feigning insanity and attempting suicide
He beat his head violently against the stone
walls of his cell, but soon gave up commit
ting suicide in this way, as his skull was
thicker than the wall.
Wilkes A. Jones, a young man of Hern-
don, who is at present attending a business
college in Augusta, received letter Friday
from New York lawyer stating that his
uncle had died in that place and left him
S500,000 1t seems that he did not know the
whereabouts of his uncle and had never seen
him. He was, OF course, very much sur
prised at the contents of the letter, but is
now probably the richest man of his age in
the State.
At Greenville Thursday night a negro
entered the residence of Mrs. Springs, a
widow in the West End Gong into
the room whore her young daughter was
sleeping, he blew out the light which was
burning at the time and approached the
bed. Screams from the terrified girl, thus
awakened, frightened the villain and he
jumped out of the window through which
he came. The alarm was not raised in time
and he escaped.
a clock sitting on the mantelpiece in one
of the rooms of l.. b McFadden's residence
at Rock Hill was shattered by lightning
during the storm of Saturday last The
door lending into the room was slightly
open, leaving a draught, and the entrance
of tine electric fluid was through the oDen-
ing. The clock was torn TO pieces and Sev-
eral picture frames wcro also splintored
but nothing else was hurt No trace was
left of tho manner in which the lightning
left the room.
Reed Glover (colored), who lived in the
Black Creek section, near Hampton, was
cutting timber on Briar branch, a tributary
Of Black creek, and was alone. As he did
not put in an appearance at the usual hour
n searched revealed his dead body under
towering pine tree, which he had com
menced to cut, and from which n dry limb
had fallen on his head and instantly XII ed
him. lt is most remarkable fact that his
skull was not crushed but the blood pushed
noln MS nose ana mouth, showing now
severe the conclusion must have been
The new iron bridge across Seneca riye",
which has just been completed Mt "A cost of
5000 TO the county, was washed away on
Tuesday night by high water. IL was car
ried about 400 yards down the river and
buried in sand and mud. Before the county
received the bridge they thought IL best 10
have it examined by an expert engineer, so
that last Wednesday they employed one
who went out and examined the bridge. He
pronounced il substantial and built accord !
ing TO contract. The commissioners receiv- |
cd IL and il is understood they have paid for
it, so it is a total loss to the county
There was a very hard rain at Newberry
last Sunday morning, and the lightning and |
thunder were very heavy. Lightning struck |
In several places. but the damage was slight |
ID. w. 4. KILLERS stable was struck about |
the centre Of the root aud sLiyersd SENS os |